[CFS-L] Update: De Meirleir being prosecuted for quackery on february 16, 2018

[Dr. Marc-Alexander Fluks]

Today, the criminal court case against De Meirleir and his wife starts
in Brussels, Belgium.

Newspaper reports february 15 (Dutch). The second URL does not work
(yet),
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180215_03359308
https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180215_03359302

Google translations from Dutch to English,
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180215_03359308
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&u=https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180215_03359302

[Tom Kindlon]

You have to register to see the pages. Here is a translation.

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20180215_03359308

Friend and foe agree: Professor Kenny De Meirleir believes sacred in
his own therapies to cure chronically tired patients. Only he does not
shun the shadowy sides of medicine, such as administering the extracts
of pig liver. From Friday onwards, the "miracle Doctor" together with
his wife for the correctional court in Brussels.
"Chronic fatigue syndrome is not between ears. So you don't have to go
to a psychiatrist. Kenny De Meirleir believes there is a hundred
percent that he can handle CVS. Not by visiting the psychiatrist so,
but by a solid antibiotic cure. The professor at VU University
Brussels is an expert in chronic fatigue and chronic Lyme disease. In
2009, he called the press together. With the report that he had the
solution for the thousands of patients fighting CFS, a disease with
many theories. "It's not between the ears and I can prove it," he
proudly said. "I have developed a urine test that demonstrates CVS and
proves that the disease has a biomedical cause. And so to treat it. "

From the US for pig liver

Hundreds of them have been drumming over the years to be cured by the
cardiologist and exertion physiologist. From America, where he often
abroad for research, from Scandinavia, from all over the world there
is money on the table for a treatment by the Meirleir. Usually this is
an antibiotic treatment of at least a half-year.

That his theories do not get an extension in scientific journals does
not bother him. Others though. virologist Marc Van ranst (KUL) has
been sceptical about the "drugs" that his colleague is deploying for
years. "I would not serve anyone varkenslever extracts. Its efficacy
has never been proven.

The panacea is called Nexavir, and it is not on the list of introduce
and inject medicines. It is manufactured in the Netherlands by the
company Kalida. That is a contraction of the names of the Meirleirs
children. His wife Carine arranges the sale to our country. Patients
from Belgium had to enter their order on their Hotmail address.
Recently, the woman has disappeared from the board of directors.

"A shadowy construction on the boundary of what may and may not be",
says Van Ranst. "The Meirleir monthly patients at a rato of 450 euro
per month buy the drug, in a company where his wife is waving the
plaque." According to Van Ranst, the professor sees himself as a
misunderstood genius. "His intention is to do good, help people. But
especially there is a solid money to be earned. He had to and would
find a hole in the market. And there he succeeded. "

Just before his retirement

Friday is the professor, on a sigh of his retirement, for the
correctional court. His wife is also responsible for entering and
administering the dubious means of Nexavir. This is done after a
complaint from the federal Agency for Medicines and health products.
The abuse dates from the period October 2006 to January 2009. The
Meirleir, not reachable for comment, risks two years of cell. His
lawyer, Sven Mary, will plead exceeding the reasonable term of the
facts.

From "My Life saved" to "fried air"
From "My Life saved" to "fried air" Photo: RR
The Meirleirs name is frequent on the website of the Dutch Association
against quackery. Someone says 35,000 euros to have paid for "fried
air". Also Sophie, a single mother of two from Denny, has no good word
for the "CVS-Wonder Doctor". She feels scammed, financially feathered.
She speaks of thousands of euros of lost money.